Politician, barrister and amateur historian and geologist.
Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth
1842 - 1923
This person is the subject of ongoing research. We have started by researching their relationship to the enslavement of people.
Biographical notes
Slavery connections
Henry Howorth’s father was in partnership with Henry Hoyle, of whom Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth was clearly the namesake, in a mercantile firm in Lisbon in the period when Portugal’s former colony Brazil was still a slave-economy. (The London Gazette [online], 20 April 1849, <https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/20970/page/1332> accessed 5 August 2021, 1332.) The extent to which Howorth’s father traded in produce from the labour of enslaved people is currently unknown.
Abolition connections
No known connections with abolition.
National Gallery painting connections
Donor: Howarth presented in 1875: NG924; in 1922: NG3647–3650, NG3665; in 1923: NG3817.
Bibliography
History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://www.oxforddnb.com/
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J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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Paintings previously owned by Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth
Follower of Jan Rombouts
Saint Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary, sits in a large red bed. She seems to be handing her child to the midwife, while two women prepare to bath and swaddle the baby.Through one window we see Noah in the stern of his ark, holding the white dove which he released three times to find out if la...
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This unknown lady stands beside a table covered with an expensive Ottoman carpet on which her small dog is lying. Her hands rest affectionately on the little dog’s back, while its paw lies on the inside of her arm. Dogs were often included in portraits to symbolise the sitter’s faithfulness, whic...
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Circle of the Master of the Saint Ursula Legend (Cologne)
Saint Lawrence, a deacon in the early Christian church in Rome, was executed in AD 258 by the pagan Roman authorities; this painting tells the story of the events that led to his martyrdom.The Roman prefect Decius ordered Lawrence to hand over the treasures belonging to the Church. Having already...
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Follower of Jacopo Tintoretto
Mary and Joseph kneel before the baby Jesus, who sleeps wrapped in a woven basket of sticks and straw. Joseph, the elderly carpenter, touches his rough fingers together in prayer. He holds a stick like those from which the basket is made, and two knives in a sheath lie in his lap. Mary presses he...
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This scene shows the holy family – the Virgin Mary, Joseph and Jesus Christ – just after Christ’s birth in a stable. The artist has set the scene in surroundings familiar to contemporary viewers: the towers of a town that resembles fifteenth-century Tuscany are visible in the distance. On the hil...
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Probably by Jacob van Oost the Elder
Two boys stand in front of a large picture displayed on a wooden easel. The snub-nosed child on the right leans over to study the drawing more closely, while the other turns, frowning slightly, to look at something out of view. The central figure is quite possibly a self portrait by the artist. H...
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